Kristi Noem, Trump’s Nominee for Leader of the Department of Homeland Security, Has Rejected Climate Science

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November 13, 2024, 6:00 PM

• •President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security and its disaster agency has said people aren't driving temperature increases and declined to accept federal climate money for disaster preparedness as governor of South Dakota.
• •Trump named Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota on Tuesday to run the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency at a time when damage from extreme weather is soaring.
• •Noem has dismissed the idea that people are causing temperatures to rise.

Kristi Noem, who has rejected climate science, has been nominated to lead the Department of Homeland Security. She has also declined to accept federal climate money for disaster preparedness and been criticized for her handling of a natural catastrophe.

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